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Everything you manipulate when you run a computer program, and the program itself, has to reside somewhere in your computer’s memory—on a disk, in its RAM circuits, in various levels of cache, or in a CPU’s or GPU’s registers. It is not something we necessarily think about when we write programs, but it is an obvious truth: if objects aren’t found somewhere, we cannot work with them. The reason we can get away with not worrying about memory is that our programming language handles most of the bookkeeping.
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Mailund, T. (2021). Memory, Objects, and Addresses. In: Pointers in C Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6927-5_2
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